Anthem is a book that was written by Ayn Rand in 1938. The setting is in a communist community in the future where man has entered another dark age. One man in the community, Equality 7-2521, is different from all his brothers and tells himself that he is cursed because he speaks unspeakable things and wishes for things no men wish for. The community they all live in has many rules and nobody has any freedom. The new society that Equality will create will have three main rules that are free agency, anyone can think anything, and you can refer to yourself as “I” and not “We”. The first rule in Anthem is that nobody has agency. The community has a place called the Palace of Mating. “This is the time each spring when all men older than twenty and all the women older than eighteen are sent for one night to the City Palace of Mating. And each of the men have one woman assigned to them by the Council of Eugenics. Children are born each winter, but women never see their children and children never know their parents”(Rand 41). In this quote it shows that the man and woman do not get to choose who to mate with and what is worse is that the parents do not get to see their child. Equality will not have this rule because it is wrong and people do not get to choose who to mate with or mate at all. Equality will also not have this rule because he respects agency and choice even though they could lead to bad. Even though if someone makes a bad choice, that helps that individual to grow and learn, and Equality understands that. The second rule is that no one can think or do things that others don’t do or think. They also cannot do things only if the council permits it. “Since the council does not know of this hole, there is no law permitting to enter. And everything which is not permitted by law is forbidden” (Rand 31). This is basically saying that everything the council does not know of or has any law permitting against it is forbidden. I think they have this law because the Council does not want anyone coming up with new ideas and finding things they don’t about. Also I think the Council does not want them to know what the they knows or the people can bring back the “Unmentionable Times”. Equality will not have this law in his society because he wants everyone to do what they want and not feel like everything they do is wrong and someone might be watching their actions. The third rule is that everyone cannot refer to themselves as “I”, only “We”. In the society everybody has to repeat this, “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever”(Rand 19). This is what is carved in marble one the World Council’s walls. Also the unforgivable word is I. I think the community has this law because they don’t want the people to get super prideful and think they are the best and become powerful over others. This kind of makes sense but then you